Community Disaster Recovery

Dr Deserai A. Crow is an Associate Professor and researches local and state-level environmental policy, often focusing on crisis and disaster recovery and risk mitigation in local communities and natural resource agencies. Deserai's crisis and disaster work includes National Science Foundation funded work on disaster recovery, COVID-19 risk perceptions and behaviors as influenced by state-level policies, and environmental justice outcomes associated with local control of oil and gas regulations. Dr. Elizabeth A. Albright, is an Associate Professor of the Practice at the Nicholas School of the Environment and engages in research around questions of local level resilience, and community learning in response to extreme events. Funded by the National Science Foundation, her work in Colorado was awarded the Paul A. Sabatier Award for Best Paper in Environmental Politics at the American Political Science Association annual meeting.

• Section I. Introduction; 1. Introduction to Disasters, Change, and Community-Level Resilience; 2. Colorado's 2013 Floods: The Disaster that Primed Community-Level Learning; Section II. Damage and Resources; 3. Disaster Damage, Severity, and Extent; 4. Pre-Disaster Capacity and Post-Disaster Resources for Recovery; Section III. Individual Beliefs; 5. Worldviews, Risk Perceptions, and Causal Beliefs: How Individuals Experience Disasters; 6. Trust in Government and Support for Policy Action; Section IV. Individual & Group Engagement; 7. Stakeholder Engagement and Community-Level Disaster Recovery towards Resilience; 8. Intergovernmental Relationships and Successful Disaster Recovery and Learning; Section V. Connections, Conclusions and Recommendations; 9. A Framework for Understanding Community-Level Learning in the Aftermath of Disaster; 10. Examining Community-Scale Disaster Recovery and Resilience Beyond Colorado; 11. Conclusions, Recommendations, and Future Directions.

'After a disaster, residents and local governments often struggle to figure out a way towards holistic recovery, policy change, and learning. Based on extensive qualitative and quantitative data and rooted in hope, Crow and Albright focus on the flood-hit Colorado areas of Denver, Larimer, and Weld, to analyze when communities actually learn lessons following a shock. A deeply researched, important guide for decision makers and students alike.' Daniel P. Aldrich, Professor, Northeastern University, and author of Building Resilience and Black Wave